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About Video Poker
While playing online Video
Poker you must keep three main things in mind. These
things will help you to strip away the mystery of an
online video poker machine and will also help you understand its value to
you. These main points should be included in your video poker
strategy:
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You must be able to read the pay tables
presented on the video poker game and know which
online games have the highest payback.
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You must know the best
online video poker strategy for the
particular machines that you choose to play with.
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You must know the
effects of a particular machine on your bankroll
.
Online video poker is
an extremely easy game to play and looking at its mechanics, playing
it is simplicity itself. However, playing video poker well
takes a little bit more effort and knowledge and that is where your
learned video
poker game strategy comes into effect.
Video poker is
one game where the house advantage is directly
affected by how much knowledge the of the game you
posses. The two
main skills involved of proper machine selection and
knowing the proper strategy for that specific video poker machine
you are playing on can get complicated because online video
poker comes in a many varieties.
For you to find
your way through such a wide variety of online video
poker games we must look at them First in over all terms.
The online casino industry offers a few basic categories
which are are non-wild
card games like Jacks or Better and Double Bonus.
Then we are offered games with wild cards like Deuces Wild or
Joker Wild. Within these two general categories, there are
many varieties. Payout schedule return rates may vary
from below 90% to above 100% (information can be found
below).
The best place for you to begin learning and
creating your online video poker strategy
is with the online game that started the whole thing,
one of my favorites, Jacks or Better video poker. The
online video poker game Jacks or Better pays off for a
pair of jacks or higher. This is particularly
good for beginners because of its easy to understand
purpose or
strategy. Even better, is the fact that some versions of Jacks or
Better have a 99.5% payback when played with
an expert's strategy. This means that Jacks or Better has only a 0.5% house
advantage. In other words, in the long run, you expect
to lose only 5 cents of every $10 you play. This is
definitely one of the best bets offered by online casinos.
After mastering Jacks or Better you may want to move to more new
and exotic online vidoe poker games but do not
forget to keep the strategy you have learned playing Jacks or Better
since it is the most basic one of them all.
While there are many factors to consider in developing
your online video poker strategy, they are too many to
detail in this article. We shall leave you with an important
factor, and probably one of the most important things to look at
when developing your online strategy, the pay table. The
pay table strips away some of the video poker game's mystery
by acting as a
window that shows you whether the game is worth your
time and/or money. (An example below), it
can reveal how much a game pays back if played
perfectly.
You can consider these tips as the
beginning of developing your online video poker
strategy.
Hand Frequency % Probability Payout Return *
Royal Flush 1 in 40,390.55 0.002% 800 1.98%
Straight Flush 1 in 9,148.37 0.011% 50 0.55%
Four of a kind 1 in 423.27 0.236% 25 5.91%
Full house 1 in 86.86 1.151% 9 10.36%
Flush 1 in 90.79 1.101% 6 6.61%
Straight 1 in 89.05 1.123% 4 4.49%
Three of a kind 1 in 13.43 7.445% 3 22.33%
Two pair 1 in 7.74 12.928% 2 25.86%
Jacks or better 1 in 4.66 21.459% 1 21.46%
Nothing 1 in 1.83 54.543% 0 0.00%
* - Royal Flush payout is based on max coins (4,000
coins for 5 coins played).
** - Total return: 99.55.
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